Børge Mogensen
Børge Mogensen (1914 - 1972).
Most people have heard of Børge Mogensen, a furniture designer whose collaboration with FDB, the Danish co-operative chain, enabled Danes to buy high-quality furniture at affordable prices. He went on to create some of the most widely recognised furniture classics of the 1950s and 1960s, a wide selection, in fact, thanks to his prolific productivity. Ideas came to Børge at all times of the day and night, and he noted them down on whatever was at hand: matchboxes, napkins or crumpled envelopes. For example, the Hunting Chair, destined to become one of Mogensen’s many classics, was sketched on a matchbox late at night in the company of good friends.
Before Mogensen’s untimely death in 1972, he and Andreas Graversen jointly won the Furniture Prize in 1971 for their long-term collaboration, still appreciated today in private homes and public offices alike.
